Books Quotes · Page 281

Books do not require either symbols or enemies to be worth reading.

— Ff

Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.

— Anonymous

Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

— John Lithgow

Don't judge a book by it's cover, read it first!

— Lana Scrabeck

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.

— Philip Schaff

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

— Anonymous

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

— Manuel Puig

Woman's face is like an open book that reveals her stateàof mind...

— Mazher (@mazher50

“It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.”

— Michael Patrick Hearn

One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.

— Danielle de Niese

I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too.

— Michael Showalter

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

— Ryan O'Neal

If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

— Malcolm Gladwell

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

— Norman Maclean

Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the…

— Svetlana Alexievich

I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make…

— Jonathan Ames

When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open.…

— Alice Hoffman

“9. Delicately Sylva moved the upper layers of paper and vellum away and saw, lying on the table, a small book. It…

— Robert Reid

“Ok now--I don't read "all the time." Remember, that these ratings are over quite a while. I'll try to put in some…

— Umberto Eco

“He is the greatest artist the South has produced.… Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral…

— William Faulkner

“There’s no two ways about it, Tolkien fans are a funny bunch. I should know, for I was one of them. Been…

— Anthony Lane

“Tears flooded her eyes and her heart beat heavily, but she knew it would be all right, because she knew that in…

— Ted Dekker

“It’s not the story-line that makes for good reading…but the storyteller. I believe Mark Twain could have filled out a credit application…

— Rob Wood

I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and…

— Emily Barton

“I wonder if you ever read my poems and wish they were written for you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers.

— Stephen D. Krashen

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

— Steven Wright

Tomorrow is the first blank page of 365 page of book. So write a good one.

— Brad Paisley

Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.

— Junot Diaz

“I always buy another book when I still have ten to read.”

— Bipolarkath

“Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.”

— Will Lavender

“A books should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.”

— Samuel Johnson

You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another.

— Jon Stewart

“Tweets and text messages killed the long novel.”

— Andrew Barger

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

— Sean Wilentz

I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

— Jan Karon

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

— Jackie Collins

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

— Calvin Trillin

Anytime your kids kill, you are at least partly to blame.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

— Alan Bennett